The "O Nosso Papel" (Our Role) NGO has 10
part time vacancies for young people from 18 years
of age. The selected youth will work in January, February
and 15 days of March. There is a salary for this work.

The
Estrela D'Oyá Culture House seeks
to preserve and disseminate Afro-Brazilian cultural
and religious values and on February will promote
these events:

“Offerings
to Yemanja, Goddess of the Waters” and
“Carnival Parade of the Afoxé
Estreal D’Oyá Block”,
preserving in great style the African roots of Brazil’s
Carnival celebration.

Day: 02/02/2005 Concentration:
09:00 am for distribution of event t-shirts
and tickets to board the yacht Place: Av. Mém de Sá,
37 - Largo da Lapa - Rio de Janiero– Headquarters
of the Federação dos Blocos Afros e
Afoxés do Rio de Janeiro (FEBARJ) Procession Starts: 10:00 AMDestination: Lapa / Praça
XV – where a yacht will be waiting for the faithful
to deliver the offerings.
After returning, everyone will be invited to partake
of the traditional fish stew and listen to the sounds
of afoxé, samba de roda, and see various shows.

The University of Michigan Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures is pleased to
announce a conference:

What's
New: Transatlantic Luso-Spanish Debates and the Market
of Ideas

”What's New: Transatlantic Luso-Spanish Debates
and the Market of Ideas” will examine intellectual
and institutional shifts in "Luso-Spanish Studies"
over the last twenty years, paying particular attention
to the relation between the new critical paradigms
within the university, and within the field of "Spanish"
in particular, and the equally astounding expansion
and extension of market forces on a global scale.

Saturday: dOMinicanISh
(8:30 PM - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)Written
and performed by Josefina Báez
2005 CWPS Artist in Residence & King Chavez Parks
Visiting ProfessorDirected
by Claudio Mir • Trumpet: Ross Walker HuffLanguage
acquisition with soul. A nonlinear expression of our
nonlinear life.

Performance
and residence generously co-sponsored by the University
of Michigan Office of the Provost, Rackham School
of Graduate Studies, the Institute for Research on
Womenand Gender, Arts at Michigan, Program in Latin
American and Caribbean Studies, and the Department
of Theatre & Drama.

Sponsors:
The Atlantic Studies Initiative, Comparative Literature,
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures,
Institute for the Humanities, Institute on Women and
Gender, International Institute, Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, LS&A, Medieval and Early Modern
Studies, Office of the Vice President for Research,
and Rackham Graduate School.

An artist of international standing, Christopher
Cozier is a leading contemporary artist who
works in the Caribbean and engages the global. Using
a vocabulary of everyday objects, his drawings,
installations, performances and videos speak emphatically
about the construction of identity and nationhood
and to issues of power and knowledge production in
our multi-cultural world. Cozier is also a curator
and critic. Among his publications are: Searching
For a Way Out (Massachusetts Review, Autumn-Winter
1994) and Between Narrative and Other Spaces
in (Small Axe, September 1999).

Cozier's
works have been exhibited at the Havana Biennale;
the Bag Factory in Johannesburg; TENT in Rotterdam;
CCA7 in Trinidad; the Museum of the Americas in Washington,
DC; the Art Foundry in Barbados; "Nouveau Monde
/mondes nouveaux" in Montreal; the Marlborough
Gallery in Madrid; the A Space in Toronto; and the
Art Centre of the City of Copenhagen. His work was
featured on the cover of Art Journal (Spring 2003),
illustrating an article-length consideration of his
practice by Annie Paul.

Sponsors: The Atlantic
Studies Initiative, the Center for Afroamerican and
African Studies, and the School of Art and Design,
and with support from the Department of the History
of Art

In
coordination with the University of Michigan program
"Global Turns and Gender Returns,"
doctoral students and faculty in Latin American history
are pleased to announce a two-day conference on the
state of gender and history research in Latin America.

This
conference will provide a forum for dialogue
among scholars working from several different institutions
across the Americas. In bringing these scholars
together, the conference will offer a unique forum
to examine the current status, challenges, and future
paths of gender studies programs in Latin America
and the U.S. as well as an opportunity to discuss
recent trends in scholarship.

Panelists:+Júnia Ferreira Furtado (Federal
University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Black Pearls:
Freed Women of Color in the Diamond District +Sarah Arvey (University of Michigan),
"Good Customs" and Illicit Sexuality in
Cuba, 1933-58 +Maria Emma Mannarelli (National
University of San Marcos, Peru), The Written Word,
Women, and Secularization in Peru, 1890-1925.

~Coffee
Break~

Panel 3 - Gender and Law
3:30-5:00pm

Chair: TBA Commentator: TBA

Panelists:
+Astrid Cubano Iguina (University
of Puerto Rico), Negotiating Masculinity and Citizenship
in Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico: Narratives of Gender
and Propriety in the Court of Law +Victoria Castillo (University of
Michigan), La Mujer India--the Solution to the "Indian
Problem"?: Race and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century
Peru +Cristiana Schettini Pereira (University
of Campinas, Brazil), Slavery in White and Black:Debates
Over Sexual Labor in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro
at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Saturday, April 23,
2005
International Institute/School of Social Work
Building
Room 1644
Panel 4 - Gender Bending/Gender Norms
11:00am-12:30pm

On April 23, 1999, the first edition of Panorama
da Palavra circulated. The journal was created
to publish the work of the poets
who appeared at the Panorama da Palavra ("Word
Panorama") - a weekly poetry reading event that
was first held at the Margarida Rey Culture House,
and later at the Cândido Mendes Theater, until
2003.

The original idea changed over the years, to take
in poets from all over Brazil, and now includes not
only contemporary poets, but also ones from all eras,
who enrich our literature.

The
journal has now reached its 47th edition, which will
be commemorated by all those appearing in its pages
through a sampling of the best of what is being produced
today in Rio de Janeiro and all of Brazil.

This past Thursday, just like all other months, we
had our roda de jongo at Arcos da Lapa in Rio de Janeiro.
It is not exaggeration to say that this event has
been one of the most looked forward to among people
who enjoy popular culture. This is certainly due not
only to the contagious animation of the Pé
de Chinelo group, but also to the integrating character
of these events, which make all feel as one. All are
treated equally and all egos are put aside, in an
uncommon spirit of togetherness.

WHAT’S
MORE, we have been even more honored to receive so
many maestros of popular culture, as happened at the
last event with the presence of Nico (of Santo
Antônio de Pádua) and Julio (of Congo,
from Vila Velha, Espírito Santo),
among other old friends.

We
would once again like to thank Lola (Companhia
Folclórica do Rio de Janeiro), for
having brought our friends and we hope to count on
her presence again in the future.

The
roda always starts at 9:00 PM. We will form a Tambor
de Crioula, under the direction of Lucio
Oliveira (who also works with the Mariocas Company
and with the Three Marias) and will also have forró
(from Tambor das Almas, and this month with backing
from the vibrant Cidéu). There will
be no lack of coconut (with the indispensable help
of Marcello Mattos). And at the end, who knows, even
a little samba to close out the night.

Debut
performance of the play "Você tem medo
de que?" ("What are you afraid of?")

On
June,4th is the debut performance of the play "Você
tem medo de que?" ("What are you afraid
of?") with the Cia.Jardim das Espécies
and directed by Rosyane Trotta. The play will be held
every saturday and sunday of June.

Environmental Week is here. And deforestation of the
Amazon continues full bore, 1,740 trees a minute!
Worse still, this has become routine. At this rate
in a short time there’ll be no Amazon Forest
left. Brazil IS LOSING its greatest natural treasure.
You can help!

Come
take part in the Greenpeace’s activities and
leave your message to make your city a Friend of the
Amazon City.

On
June 4, the eve of Earth Day, Greenpeace presents
the interactive game Peace in the Forest, aimed at
kids and their parents. The game points out the friends
and enemies of the Amazon Forest. Have a look!

06/07
– Vigil in front of the Presidential Palace.
Joint activity with other NGOs, remembering the murder
of Sister Dorothy Stang, with the theme “The
death of the forest is the end of our lives"
– 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
...

*** Learn about other events that will
be part of Greenpeace’s actions for Environmental
Week in Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Manaus, Porto
Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo.
See here:www.greenpeace.org.br

***
GOLDEN CHAINSAW AWARD
If you haven’t voted yet, participate now: www.greenpeace.org.br/motosserra/
If you’ve already voted, see the results at
our site on June 7th.

Jorge Lopes Ramos, actor and director of the Zecora
Ura Theater Group, of London, and the Moitará
Group take great pleasure in inviting you to a workshop
at its headquarters. Sign-ups are open.DON’T
MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!

Remark: At the last workshop, at night,
there will be a demonstration work open to
the public, for at most 30 people. Those
interested should get in touch to make reservations.

The Body as a Channle is the result of the practical
thesis developed from the theoretical studies of Antonin
Artaud, of Japanese Butoh dancing and of its ramifications
in Europe today. The study of the body as a channel
is conducted by investigating the practices of Tatsumi
Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, where the dance is not an
end, but rather a means. The work of listening as
a point of departure enables an understanding of the
body in organic movement, suspended and interrupted
aging, physical and imaginary manipulation of the
body, emptying the “channel”, directing
energy and life cycles.

Jorge Lopes Ramos is artist in residence and visiting
professor at Rose Bruford College in England. Founding
member and artistic director of the Zecora Ura Theatre
(London) since 2001, his experience as director includes
10 shows, presented in various countries such as England,
Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Finland,
Iceland, Brazil and Japan, where he has also given
various workshops. His training is based on a range
of corporal practices, such as Japanes Butoh dance,
Kabuki theater, Commedia Dell’Arte, acrobatics,
clown performance, Laban, mime, physical theater and
Angolan capoeira. His teachers include Atsuchi Takenuchi
(Ohno/Hijikata), Ana Sanchez Coldberg (Pina Bausch),
Ana Vasquez de Castro (Peter Brook), Ian Morgan (Grotowski),
among others.

The film by Carlos García Agraz was shown at
various festivals, such as in Mexico and Havana, where
it won the award for best actress. At the Gramado
Festival in 1993, besides being nominated
for the Kikito Award as the best Ibero-American film,
Mi Querido Tom Mix won the award for best actor for
the interpretation of Federico Luppi.

The script for Mi Querido Tom Mix was written by Consuelo
Garrido in a script workshop organized by the Colombian
writer Gabriel García Márquez. Its greatest
quality is to revitalize a genre known in Mexico as
“aventura”, which was of great importance
in the history of that country’s cinema.

To start off the session in July, we’ll have
the not-to-be missed short SIEMBRO VIENTO
EN MI CIUDAD (Cuba, 1978, 24 min), by Cuban
filmmaker Fernando Pérez, which documents moments
in the artistic life of Chico Buarque and his relations
with the political and social life of Brazil.

The
"Alta
Estação da Arte" Festival will
be promoted by BSAG during the days 15, 16, 17, 20,
21, 22 and 23, in July, and will have a programming
that gathers presentations of various works with quality,
like Cia. de Dança Dani Lima, Teatro do Nada,
Violão Real Quintet, Cabaret Pé Sujo,
Sergio Cezar, “the architect of cardboard”,
and many others.

Racial
and ethnic diversity is in the heart of this country,
and also in the classroom.

Promoted
by the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Literacy
and Diversity (Secad/MEC), part of the ministry
of Education, in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro
state government, the event will occur at COLÉGIO
BATISTA SHEPARD, which is located at Rua José
Higino, 416 - Tijuca/R on August 1st and 2nd, 2005.

During
these two days, participants will be able to choose
from presentations, roundtable discussions and working
groups, with all activities related to the themes
of education and racial and ethnic diversity.

Among
the main themes will be Law 10,639, enacted in 2003,
which makes African history and afro-Brazilian culture
a required part of the national curriculum directives.
The seminar will be a good opportunity to
discuss the implementation of public policies to promote
racial equality.

The
Ministry of Education has been holding these forums
since last year, in various states, and all told there
will be 20.

The
World Congress of Orixá Tradition and Culture
(OrisaWorld) opens sign-ups for the Ninth
OrisaWorld Congress, which will take place
from August 1 to 6, 2005 at Ro de Janeiro State University,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This
congress will focus on the role of the Orixá
religion in society, exploring the influence of the
Orixá religion and culture in contemporary
societies, and its effective role in people’s
lives, especially among Africans of the Diaspora and
on the African continent. In this form, the congress
will seek to analyze the current context of
societies from the African matrix, stressing
their positive characteristics, and at the same time
pointing to possible solutions to various problems.
The sub-themes include the following:

1. Education, pedagogy and Orixá religion
2. Health, medicine and curing
3. Native knowledge and technological systems
4. Sacrifice, possession and ritual
5. Environment and ecology
6. The use of the Yoruba language and philosophy
7. Creation in visual and performing arts
8. The relevance of the literature on Ifá and
Orixá
9. Public policies and social rights
10. Promotion of Yoruban culinary arts and sciences
11. Development and preservation of the biological
and spiritual family
12. Socioeconomic development 13.
Relations between African and the Diaspora
14. Inter-religiosity
15. Ethics, hierarchy, discipline and character
16. Questions of gender, race and ethnicity
17. Currents of the Orixá religion
18. Questions about the body and sexuality in the
Orixá tradition
19. Negritude: the bias of the African matrix in philosophy
20. Politics and religion

We stress that presentations on subjects not directly
related to the main congress’s theme, but that
are relevant to the Orixá religion and culture,
will always be welcome. The organization is therefore
open to applications of summaries on topics related
to the Orixá religion, culture and tradition
in general.

The deadline for sign-ups for summaries of communications,
exhibitors and presenters is June 17, 2005. We will
send you a confirmation letter as soon as we receive
the summaries and sign-ups.
(Please indicate what sub-theme applies to your summary.)

The Interdisciplinary Nucleus for
Afro-Descendent Reflection and Memory (Nirema) is
beginning a series of meetings to discuss race, nationhood
and civil rights in the United States. The first presentation
will be by Professor Jerry Davila, of the University
of North Carolina, who will speak on Slavery and the
Formation of the Republic in the United States. The
meeting will take place on Monday, August 15th, at
3:00 PM in Room 408-F. The presentation will be in
Portuguese and certificates will be given to participants.

The last Thursday of every month we get together with
friends for dancing and other festivities. This month
it will be on the 25th, at 9:00 PM, under the Lapa
Arches. We’ll dance jongo, coco, tambor de crioula
and Uruguayan candomblé (with the group Nação
Zumbalelê). The event is open to the public,
full of spirit, and it’s free.

Saturday, August 27th, at the Pé-de-Chinelo
House, we’ll have a delicious feijoada. The
dish, prepared by Olívia and Cassiano, will
be the outcome of the efforts of each member of the
group, and seeks to raise funds to finish construction
or our headquarters.

On
November 1st we’ll be holding, for the sixth
straight year, the All Saints Procession for Peace,
which this year will be part of the programming of
the Celebrate with the City Cultural Condominium,
an event in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro city
government.
The Cultural Condominium and the Grande Companhia
Brasileira de Mystérios e Novidades hold the
All Saints Procession every November 1st, starting
at 5:00 PM. It is a grand procession not only in honor
of Catholic saints, but also in respect of
various traditions and religions (African, Indigenous,
Buddhist and Hindu, among others). It starts
from the Cultural Condominium, in Largo de São
Francisco, and follows many of the streets with special
significance in the cultural life of downtown Rio
de Janeiro, ending up at Praça XV.

In
a manifestation at the same time artistic, pacifist
and integrating, where the richness of our diversity
finds expression, saints are represented by actors,
dancers and musicians on stilts, dressed in special
costumes created for the occasion, accompanied by
banners and musical instruments intoning sacred and
profane hymns. Participation is open to all who want
to accompany or take part actively in this moment
of rare beauty.

On
November 7 and 8, 2005, the symposium "A Compared
Perspective on Slavery: Brazil and the USA" will
take place in the Grand Salon of the Institute of
Social Sciences (IFCS) of Rio de Janeiro Federal University
(UFRJ). Below is the programming:

November 7: Opening with Manolo Florentino and conference
on "The historiography of slavery in the United
States: new approaches," with William Harris.

November 8: Roundtable discussion "Aspects of
slavery in the Americas", with Vitor Izecksohn
- Moderator, William Harris, Robert Slenes, Keila
Grinberg and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian.

Sign-ups are free and can be made until 11/04/2005,
from Noon to 5:00 PM at the secretary's office of
the Postgraduate History Program, at Largo de Sao
Francisco, no. 1, Centro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

Shinsuke
Uno (SNRE) and Brenda Lin (SNRE) will be leading the
second of this semester’s LACS Brownbag Series
with a presentation on “Sustainable Coffee Agriculture
in Chiapas, Mexico: from ecology to economics.”
Coffee agroecosystems are diverse agricultural systems
that cover much of Latin America. Its traditional
form includes many layers of shade canopy cover that
serve as habitat for various organisms. For this reason,
traditional coffee agroecosystems have received much
attention among conservationists as refuges for biodiversity.
Protecting traditional systems of coffee may also
be beneficial toward protecting crop production from
global climate change. Climate data from Southern
Mexico show trends in decreasing annual precipitation
and increasing temperatures in the last forty years.
This change in climate is a challenge to farmers who
need rainwater to maintain crop production. Studies
show that traditional coffee systems are capable of
maintaining more water within the agricultural crop
layer than technified coffee systems. However, current
trends show that more technified coffee agroecosystems
are replacing these traditional coffee systems, and
the value of coffee agroecosystems for biodiversity
and water conservation is rapidly being lost.

Brenda
Lin is a doctoral candidate in the School of Natural
Resources and the Environment. She is interested in
the ability to maintain ecological benefits in disturbed
habitats and is currently studying sustainable coffee
agroecosystems in Southern Mexico. Shinsuke Uno is
a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Natural Resources
and Environment. He is interested in biodiversity
conservation in agroecosystems and its practical benefit.
His current research focuses on the diversity of parasitic
wasps in coffee agroecosystems of southern Mexico.

Wednesday,
November 30, 12-1pm, in 210 West Hall

Fernando
Velasquez (Romance Languages and Literatures) will
present his work in progress: "Writing at a Crossroads:
Arguedas between Literature and Anthropology."
Through the analysis of Arguedas' short story "El
sueño del pongo," this reflection discusses
writing as political intervention and the contradictions
that such an operation entails.

Thursday
December 1st, 5:30PM, 1028 DANA (the School of Natural
Resources and the Environment, at 341 E. University
Ave.)

Please
come tomorrow evening for a presentation on Fair Trade
Cocoa in Ecuador by the founder of the Kallari Cooperative,
Judy Logback, and cooperative leaders Netty Cayapa
& Diego Grefa as they discuss the effect of Fair
Trade on their communities, how they became involved,
as well as barriers along the way specific to Fair
Trade cocoa production, and what we in the US can
do to help out. Fair trade coffee, baked goods and
translation will be provided!

Wednesday,
December 7, 12-1 pm, International Institute, room
2609

LACS
will be having another brownbag entitled "From
drug lords to war-lord: the unintended consequences
of anti-drug policies in Colombia,” which will
be presented by Francisco Thoumi (Professor of Economics,
and Director/Founder of the Research and Monitoring
Center on Drugs and Crime, Universidad del Rosario,
Bogotá, Colombia).

Thursday,
December 8, 12-1pm, International Institute, room
2609

For
the next LACS Bate-Papo in our Fall Series, Paulina
Alberto (History, RLL) will be talking about “Os
Bailes Soul e o Movimento Negro Carioca nos Anos 70.”
Paulina Alberto is assistant professor of History
and Romance Languages and Literatures, working on
questions of race and national identity in modern
Latin America. Specifically, her work focuses on black
intellectuals' and activists' involvement in defining
Brazil's multi-racial identity in the 20th century.
The Bate-Papo is a series of informal meetings of
students, scholars, and invited guests to discuss
issues of broad contemporary interest. Conversations
will be primarily in Portuguese, but accessible to
beginning Portuguese students.

Thursday,
December 8, 3-5pm, International Institute, room 2609

Please
come to the Caribbean Workshop Opening Reception which
will serve as the official inauguration for the 2005-06
Caribbean Workshop Series. The goal of this reception
is to facilitate contact across departments and to
initiate communication between students and professors
whose work focuses on the Caribbean. At this event,
the organizers will also present to the academic community
the schedule for upcoming presentations and related
events.

Friday,
December 9, 4:30-6:30pm in the Michigan Room of the
Michigan League

As
part of the Colloquium series: What is the Atlantic?,
Juan Flores (Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center)
will be presenting the lecture ‘Creolite in
the Hood: Diaspora as Source and Challenge.’
Professor Juan Flores, a well known scholar in the
field of Puerto Rican and Cultural Studies, teaches
seminars in sociological theory, Latino and cultural
studies at the CUNY Graduate School. Since 1999, he
has been director of the Hunter College Mellon Minority
Undergraduate Fellowship Program. He has been a member
of the Board of Directors of the New York Council
on the Humanities and has consulted for the Smithsonian
Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation. His major
publications include Poetry in East German, Memoirs
of Bernardo Vega, Divided Arrival, Divided Borders:
Essays on Puerto Rican Identity, & his latest
publication, From Bomba to Hip Hop: Puerto Rican Culture
and Latino Identity (Columbia University Press, 2000).
This lecture is free and open to the public.

***Announcements***

LACS
WINTER COURSES:

“Wired
up to the World: Performance, Film & Television
in Contemporary Brazil.” (LACS 490.001
for undergrads, LACS 590.001 for grads and Comm 437.001
for Communication Students). A one-credit mini-course,
to be held on Tuesdays & Thursdays, from March
7, 2006-March 28, 2006: 5-7 pm, in 3512 Haven Hall.
The class will be taught by Professor Esther Hamburger
who is a Professor of Communication Arts at the University
of São Paulo (USP). With a background in social
anthropology (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999),
Professor Hamburger has emerged as one of the leading
television scholars conducting original primary research
in Brazil. She has published in a wide range of journals
and book anthologies, including the journals Framework
and Television and New Media in the U.S., and is a
correspondent for the prestigious Folha de São
Paulo newspaper. Recent projects include her book
O Brasil atenado (2005), a study of the Brazilian
telenovela, and research-in-progress on representations
of race, poverty, modes of exhibition, and viewer
response in cinema and live performance.

This
fourteen-hour, one-credit mini-course focuses on film
and television representations of violence and poverty
as intrinsic dimensions of what is known as "the
social problem" in contemporary Brazil. The dispute
over control of how and where these representations
are produced defines the relationship that people
from different social classes and professional segments
maintain with various audiovisual formats, such as
TV programs (news, reality shows, soap operas), documentaries
and/or fictional films. In this course, consideration
of films and specialized literature will be combined
with discussion of an ongoing ethnographic experiment
in a favela in São Paulo since the end of the
1990s. Our focus will be on how people from different
social groups contribute (unequally) to both the production
and reception of images that represent Brazil. For
more information, contact David Frye at dfrye@umich.edu,
or Esther Hamburger at ehamb@usp.br.

“From
the Law of the Indies to Brasilia: Architecture and
Urbanism in Mexico, Peru and Brazil.” (LACS
619), History of Art (HA 617). Thursdays 10-1 pm,
in

210
Tappan Hall, and taught jointly by Prof. Fernando
Lara, and Professor Stella Nair (both from U-M). What
is “Latin American Architecture?” Is there
such a thing as the “Latin American city?”
In this course, we will explore the common stereotypes
and misconceptions about “Latin America”
as expressed through architecture and urban form,
challenging how ideas of sameness and difference in
the built environment are embedded in cultural assumptions.
We will critique the boundaries of Latin America as
we explore examples from beyond Central and South
America, turning also to the United States and the
Caribbean. Covering five hundred years but focusing
primarily on three case studies (Mexico, Peru, and
Brazil) this interdisciplinary seminar will interrogate
some of the major themes concerning architecture and
urban form in Latin America, ranging from cultural
encounters to internationalization. In particular,
we will address the entanglement of the built environment
with issues of race, nation building, and artistic
production. We will explore how architecture and the
city have been imagined, created, visualized, altered,
destroyed and remembered in order to better understand
the complex dynamics underlying their histories.

New
Grad Course for Winter 2006. Anthro 549: ‘Indigenous
Political Movements’. Professor Stuart Kirsch.
Thursdays 1-4 pm. 171 Lorch. This course
examines the prospects and limits of contemporary
indigenous political movements. The emergence of the
indigenous as a legal category and social movement
has opened up new politics and debates about alternative
forms of sovereignty in many parts of the world. These
movements express concerns about their physical and
cultural survival, local environments and the economic
benefits of natural resources, linguistic continuity,
and political autonomy. Paradoxically, securing new
rights-based claims requires movement and translation
across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries.
Strategic alliances with nongovernmental organizations,
which have their own agendas, may result in significant
compromises. Yet indigenous movements retain the capacity
to introduce new ideas into the public domain in a
compelling fashion, presenting alternatives to familiar
forms of the state, science, and capital. Readings
include: Ramos (1998) INDIGENISM, Niezen (2003) THE
ORIGINS OF INDIGENISM, Baviskar (2004) IN THE BELLY
OF THE RIVER (2nd ed.), Sawyer (2004) CRUDE CHRONICLES,
Warren (1998) INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS AND THEIR CRITICS,
Grant (1995) IN THE SOVIET HOUSE OF CULTURE, Bell
(1998) NGARRINDJERI WURRUWARRIN, Brown (2004) WHO
OWNS NATIVE CULTURE?, and Tsing (2005) FRICTION.

University
of Chicago Summer 2006 Beginning and Intermediate
K'iche' Maya Classes. June 19-August 26,
2006. During Summer 2006, the Center for Latin American
Studies at the University of Chicago will offer an
intensive summer institute in K’iche’,
a Mayan language spoken by about one million people
in the central highlands of Guatemala. K’iche’
has played a central role in the Mayan cultural revitalization
movement and has a long literary tradition including
such works as the Popol Wuuj (Popol Vuh) and numerous
plays such as Rabinal Achi. The CLAS K’iche’
course will be taught by Rusty Barrett, a Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Linguistics Department conducting socio-linguistic
research on K’iche’ dialectology and language
change.

The
K’iche’ course uses newly developed teaching
materials in addition to a revised version of the
Stanley Wick and Remigio Cochojil-González
textbook written for the late Norman McQuown’s
K’iche’ course at the University of Chicago.
The course will be appropriate for students with a
wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including
anthropology, comparative religion, Latin American
studies, linguistics, and human development. Emphasis
will be on developing proficiency in modern spoken
K’iche’ for future field or archival research.
The University of Chicago houses one of the world’s
finest collection of recorded K’iche’
materials, including recordings dating back to the
1920’s. In the summer of 2006, CLAS will offer
intensive courses in both Beginner’s and Intermediate
K’iche’, allowing additional students
to take advantage of this rare opportunity.

Graduate
students at CIC institutions may directly enroll in
the K'iche' institute without change in registration
or increase in tuition through the CIC Traveling Scholars
program. For details on how to apply, please visit
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/TravelingScholars/index.shtml.
Graduate students at CIC institutions may also apply
for Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP) scholarships
to cover living expenses incurred while attending
the K'iche' institute. Applications are due February
10, 2006. For details on how to apply, please visit
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/FLEP/index.shtml.

500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE: Capoeira Angola
Tribute to a Legend in Capoeira Angola in Brazil:
Master Pastinha. Friday Dec.2-Sunday Dec.4, 2005 with
Master Caboquinho and Master Marrom. In 1942 Master
Pastinha founded the first Angola school, the Centro
Esportivo de Capoeira Angola, located at the Pelourinho.
Shortly before this time Capoeira had been banned
in Brazil. Capoeira Angola is an Afro-Brazilian dance/defense
that developed 500 years ago in Brazil by Africans
fighting to maintain freedom. It has now become an
art-form that has spread throughout Brazil and throughout
the world.

Friday,
Dec. 2, 1:30pm, Michigan Union, Anderson room A"500
years of Resistance: Life of Master Pastinha"
(Ann Arbor) Lecture and Movie on History
of Capoeira Angola and Master Pastinha, with Master
Caboquinho and Master Marrom.

Open
for community, family and friends to watch and participate!
Brazilian Food will be served! Please e-mail capoangoladetroit@prodigy.net
or call 734-449-9960/313-361-9030 to register for
workshops. Registration for lecture or roda is not
necessary. Please visit www.tabcat.org
for more information.

CALL
FOR PAPERS: The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Biennial Spring Conference will have panels, plenaries,
and workshops on "Translations of Value."
May 5 & May 6, 2006 at the historic Pfister Hotel,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. DEADLINE for Paper and Panel
Proposals: January 1, 2006. The 2006 SCA conference
theme invites participants to track, conceptually
and ethnographically, the networks of association
through which people and things create, transmit,
transform, and contest, economic and semiotic value(s).
Among the themes invited for individual paper and
panel proposals are: Commodity and value chains; politics
of translation in scientific knowledge production;
semiotic and linguistic value shifts; the social life/transnational
traffic of things and persons; transforming knowledge
systems and local knowledges; transnational social/solidarity
movements; geographies of belonging and exclusion;
emerging methods and scales of ethnography. We invite
contributors to address the challenges, methodological
and political as well as theoretical, posed by global
translations to an anthropology committed to ethnographic
practice. Featured plenary speakers and workshop organizers
include: Marisol de la Cadena, Lisa Cartwright, Elizabeth
Dunn, Judith Farquhar, Lisa Rofel, Rachel Silvey,
Charis Thompson, Anna Tsing, Kay Warren, Brad Weiss,
and Sylvia Yanagisako. The David Schneider Memorial
lecture will be given by Professor Timothy Mitchell
of New York University. http://www.aaanet.org/sca/meetings/sca/2006/intro.htm

CALL
FOR ABSTRACTS. Paper
proposals are being accepted for the upcoming Graduate
Student Conference "Perceptions of Space",
to be held March 24 & 25, 2006, at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison (Dept of Spanish and Portuguese).
Grad students from any discipline to submit proposals
for papers which examine how the perception of space,
whether real or imaginary, influences disciplines,
identities, genres, artistic expression, and language
in the context of Spanish American, Luso-Brazilian,
or Iberian Studies. Presenters are welcome to address
the conference topic from any interpretive stance,
and from a variety of (inter)disciplinary approaches.
The following list is not intended to be exhaustive:
Boundaries and borders; Imaginary communities and
imaginary worlds; Cities vs. countryside / urban vs.
rural; Regions and their effect on ethnicity / identity;
Nationalism, transnationalism, globalization; Foreign
and national spaces; Regional dialects and languages;
Gendered, queered, and/or transgressive spaces; Bodies
within space; Exile; Disciplinary and interdisciplinary
spaces; Textual space; The space of genres; The space
of languages / language’s view of space; The
interaction between visual images and the spaces they
reflect; Theatrical and/or cinematic space. Abstracts
of no more than 200 words can be submitted in Spanish,
Portuguese, or English; send to: Julie M. Beutler,
1018 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI
53706-1557. Deadline for abstract submissions: January
24, 2006. More information: Michelle Sharp [mmsharp@wisc.edu].

LANGUAGE
FELLOWSHIPS FOR GRAD STUDENTS:
1) LACS has just announced the 2006 competitions for
FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) awards. UM
grad and professional school students who are US citizens
or permanent residents are eligible. Eligible languages:
Quechua, Brazilian Portuguese, and (for professional
school students only) advanced Spanish. There are
two concurrent competitions. Summer 2006 FLAS awards
pay for an intensive summer course of six weeks or
more (providing full tuition plus a stipend of $2500
for the summer); this year we expect to fund 7 awards.
Academic year 2006-07 FLAS awards pay full UM tuition
plus a stipend totaling $14,500 over ten months; awardees
must be enrolled in language class each semester of
the award; we expect to award 3 of these. You may
apply for both the Summer and the Academic Year FLAS
at the same time. Deadline: February 1, 2006. More
info:
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/lacs/fellowships/flas.htm
and http://www.umich.edu/%7Eiinet/iisite/funding/FLAS/Site/index.htm.

2)
For students needing language study of less commonly
taught languages, please note that the Committee on
Institutional Cooperation(CIC) will be providing 24
awards for summer 2006. Each award is for $2000. Check
out the CIC website for the application, for frequently
asked questions, and for a description of languages
and CIC locations. The deadline for the FLEP application
is February 10. A list of the available languages
to be offered will be posted in January. Students
selected for this award may also apply to the CIC
Traveling Scholar Program which allows the student
to take the language course from another CIC university
without a change in the registration process or tuition
cost. The website is http://cic.uiuc.edu/programs/FLEP/

December
3 (Saturday)
09:00h Development and Sustainability of Quilombo
Communities
11:00h Systematization and Pathways
12:00h Lunch
14:00h Strengthening and Protagonism of the Associations
16:00h Report from the Provisional State Commission
and exchange of experiences with representatives from
other states
17:30h Cultural activity

December
4 (Sunday)
08:30h Election of the São Paulo State Commission
on Quilombo Communities
11:00h Presentation of the State Community Coordinators
of São Paulo
11:30h Reading of the manifestos and approval of the
Letter of Caçandoca
Closing with lunch and cultural activity
15:00h Departure

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Objectives

To
stimulate joint efforts between public officials and
quilombo leaders to identify the needs and priorities
of remaining quilombo communities, to encourage sustainable
economic development.

To
further the actions of the Quilombo Community Associations
under their entitlements as defined in Decree-Law
4887.

To
formalize a commitment to regularize the landholding
situation of quilombos, mainly those involved in lawsuits,
promoting the surveying of public lands.

To
make official the São Paulo State Commission
on Quilombo Communities.

EMPIRE
RISING.
By Thomas Kelly. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.)
A muscular historical novel in which the Irish erect
the Empire State Building in a cheerfully corrupt
New York.

ENVY.By
Kathryn Harrison. (Random House, $24.95.) A psychoanalyst
is unhappy but distant until Greek-tragedy things
start happening in this novel by an ace student
of sexual violation.

EUROPE
CENTRAL.By
William T. Vollmann. (Viking, $39.95.) A novel,
mostly in stories, of Middle European fanaticism
and resistance to it in the World War II period.

FOLLIES:
New Stories.
By Ann Beattie. (Scribner, $25.) This keen observer
of the surface of life now slows down for an occasional
epiphany.

HARRY
POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE.
By J. K. Rowling. Illustrated by Mary GrandPré.
(Arthur A. Levine/ Scholastic, $29.99.) In this
sixth volume of the epic series, the Dark Lord,
Voldemort, is wreaking havoc throughout England
and Harry, now 16, is more isolated than ever.

HOME LAND. By Sam Lipsyte. (Picador, paper,
$13.) Lipsyte's antihero, a loser but unbowed, asserts
in endless letters to his alumni magazine that all
the others are losers too.

THE HOT KID. By Elmore Leonard. (Morrow, $25.95.)
Many seek fame in this rendering of America's criminal
landscape in the 1930's; the title character, a
killer lawman, achieves it.

HOW
WE ARE HUNGRY: Stories.
By Dave Eggers. (McSweeney's, $22.) A shining miscellany
peopled by characters in close touch with childhood.

ARE
MEN NECESSARY? When Sexes Collide.
By Maureen Dowd. (Putnam, $25.95.) The Times's twice-a-week
Op-Ed columnist for the last decade expands her
observations on the gender situation, from the Y
chromosome up.

THE
BEATLES: The Biography.
By Bob Spitz. (Little, Brown, $29.95.) Spitz's broad,
incisive chronicle breathes new life into the familiar
story of the Liverpool boys who conquered the entertainment
world.

COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
By Jared Diamond. (Viking, $29.95.) In ''Guns, Germs,
and Steel'' (1997), Diamond speculated on how the
world reached its present pecking order of nations;
his latest book examines geographic and environmental
reasons some societies have fallen apart.

THE
RIVER OF DOUBT: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey.
By Candice Millard. (Doubleday, $26.) A vibrant
retelling of Roosevelt's postelection expedition
through the Rio da Dúvida; what was supposed to
be a well-provisioned safari became instead a survey
of an uncharted capillary of the Amazon.

Francisco Thoumi
From drug lords to war-lord: The unintended consequences
of anti-drug policies in Colombia

Wednesday, December 7, 12-1 pm,
2609 SSWB/International Institute

It is clear that governments have been attempting
to control and regulate mind-altering drug use for
a long time. Their results, however, have been at
best highly questionable. Today cocaine and heroin
are widely available, new drugs have appeared on the
market, new markets have developed and new criminal
and subversive organizations have entered the illegal
drug business. Advocates of current policies would
argue that without the policies things would be worse.
Those who oppose them contend that policies themselves
are at fault and have contributed to increasing the
social costs of drug production and trafficking, as
has occurred with the breakdown of the large Cali
and Medellin cartels. This breakdown has led to a
proliferation of small trafficking organizations that
did not have large armed support groups, and so began
to use paramilitary and guerrilla groups to supply
the force necessary to operate illegally. These armed
groups have gained power and today drug traffickers
tend to be their subsidiaries. From large cartels
the industry has evolved into one controlled by paramilitary
and guerrilla groups, owing much of its existence
to the questionable results of current drug policy.

The
Aracy de Almeida Popular Culture Center promotes event
in which Lucio Sanfilippo will be honored as a representative
of the artists who have added value to popular culture.
The group Pé-de-Chinelo will also be there,
adding their part to the subject.

As
part of the activities of National Samba Day, on December
1st at 2:00 PM, at the City Council Auditorium, the
Aracy de Almeida Popular Culture Center promoted a
panel discussion on Cultural Policies and Contemporary
Youth: two inventories, divided into two debate tables:

+Public
Policies on Culture, with state representative Alessandro
Molon, city councilman Eliomar Coelho, Lúcia
Pardo, ombudswoman of the Ministry of Culture, and
Dalmo Mota of the Musicians Union.

+Contemporary
Scene: contemporary culture and the ways today’s
youth express themselves, with the groups Memória
and Cultura do Samba, the popular culture group Pé-de-Chinelo,
the College Assistance Group for Afro-Brazilians and
the Disadvantaged and the ELAM Music School.

August
18th and 24thAt 7:00 PM
Open class to present the WORKING GROUP ON ONE's SELF
with Celso Nascimento - Psychologist - Corporeal Therapist.

April
4, 2004

Winning
Futures CONVERSATION CLUB presents its first meeting
at BAIXO SANTA DO ALTO GLÓRIA:

July 14 at 7:00 PM.

Once a month we have a get-together with interesting
people to participate in diverse activities while
they develop their communication skills in English
and/or Spanish.

The Baixo Santa do Alto Glória cultural complex
is in a restored neoclassical house in one of Rio’s
few remaining authentic Victorian neighborhoods, where
participants can spread their chairs on the sidewalk
and engage in an evening of conversation.

These events also feature artistic presentations,
such as film shorts - a recent example being "Beautiful
March 2003" by Miguel Barbosa Silveira, poetry
readings - by Glória Horta, among others- and
topics of special interest - such as discussions of
traditional Chinese medicine with specialist Dr. Ronaldo
Azem.